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Electro Power Systems has opened a new company in Singapore to address growing worldwide interest in its fuel cell technology for telecom backup power and off-grid power integrated with on-site hydrogen generation.

Die Welt has reported the start of the first decentralised fuel cell power plant in Germany as energy company Trianel launches a pilot scheme: 25 micro-CHP fuel cell systems installed in Aachen will be connected and centrally controlled as a 'virtual' power plant.

The Nikkei reports that one of the key R&D focus points for newly formed Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will be developing cost-effective, ultra-durable steel products for the storage and transport of hydrogen for energy.

London’s five hydrogen fuel cell taxis provided by the HyTEC (Hydrogen Transport for European Cities) project have now driven 2,500 miles (approx. 4,000 km) in total, fuelled by the city’s second hydrogen fuelling station at Heathrow airport.

The system incorporates an Acta electrolyser and a Ballard fuel cell stack, assembled and tested by M-Field Energy in Taiwan. The system has been shipped to SEFCA in Australia to be put on field trial with a major Australian telecoms company in the near future.